Olivia Hussey, who dazzled moviegoers as the female star of Franco Zeffirelli's 1969 fabled adaptation of Romeo and Juliet, died Thursday. She was 73. Hussey died "at home surrounded by her loved ones,

Olivia was a remarkable person whose warmth, wisdom, and pure kindness touched the lives of all who knew her,” Hussey's family said

Olivia Hussey Eisley, the actress who shot to fame as one of the star-crossed lovers in Franco Zeffirelli’s controversial Romeo and Juliet in 1968, died peacefully today at home surrounded by her loved ones,